We had a light lunch at a bakery. By the way, bakeries here are awesome. I don't know what the chocolate hazelnut dipped almond paste filled shortbread with baklava filling on top was called, but it was awesome. I told Bill he should be looking for baking books.
After wandering around town for a bit, we headed back to the airport to catch our flight to Grimsey. They didn't ask for ID at any point in any of the three flights we were on today. The flight back from Grimsey didn't even involve boarding passes. The flights to and from the island were in a tiny little prop plane with 10 seats and a bit of luggage space at the back. The view was spectacular.
The island is home to a small fishing village that I'm pretty sure Bill talks about in his post as well as many, many birds. Mostly arctic terns and puffins. Landing on the island involved displacing a runway full of terns as they all fled into the air just ahead of us. Grimsey is also partly in the Arctic Circle so now we have nice little certificates that say we've crossed it. Also, thanks to MiFi, I got to make a terrible pun on Google+.
For some reason I want to eat a puffin now.
After the short flight back, we had a few hours to kill, so it was back to Akureyri for some shopping, hot dogs, and another stop in the bakery. We also wandered around trying to find a statue that I think the tour book made up. I also tried to talk Bill into buying some books so the bag he was carrying would get even heavier, but he was totally on to me and didn't think I was funny.
After the flight back,we wandered around Reykjavik for a bit looking for a quiet bar to get a drink and instead found a Tapas place with puffin on the menu. The wait was really long and we weren't actually very hungry so we made reservations for tomorrow night.
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